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#!/usr/bin/env ruby
#
# A complete URL-shortening web application, written in Ruby/Sinatra. Run it
# from the command line, and then visit http://localhost:4567/
#
# Or to run it under apache/passenger, you'll need a config.ru file with the
# following contents:
#
# require 'tinyurl'
# run Sinatra::Application
#
# 11 Apr 2009
# West Arete Computing
# http://westarete.com/
require 'rubygems'
require 'sinatra'
require 'active_record'
# ===== Controller =====
# Our home page lets people enter URLs to shorten.
get '/' do
@link = Link.new
haml :new
end
# Create a new short URL.
post '/' do
# See if it already exists.
@link = Link.find_by_url(params[:link][:url])
if @link
haml :show
else
# Create a new one.
@link = Link.new(params[:link])
if @link.save
haml :show
else
haml :new
end
end
end
# Render the CSS stylesheet.
get '/stylesheet.css' do
content_type 'text/css', :charset => 'utf-8'
sass :stylesheet
end
# Redirect the visitor to the appropriate URL.
get '/:code' do
@link = Link.find_by_code!(params[:code])
@link.seen += 1
@link.save!
redirect @link.url
end
# ===== Model =====
# See if we need to load the schema now, since the database will get created
# as soon as we connect.
dbfile = File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/database.sqlite3'
need_to_load_schema = ! File.exist?(dbfile)
# Connect to the database.
ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(:adapter => 'sqlite3', :database => dbfile)
# Create the database if it doesn't already exist.
if need_to_load_schema
ActiveRecord::Schema.define do
create_table "links", :force => true do |t|
t.text "url", :null => false
t.integer "seen", :null => false, :default => 0
t.datetime "created_at"
end
add_index "links", ["url"], :name => "index_links_url", :unique => true
end
end
# Due to the way that Sinatra reloads code, we need to wipe out our definition
# of the Link class after each request (in development mode).
Object.module_eval { remove_const(:Link) if const_defined?(:Link) }
# This class is used to access the links that we create and follow.
class Link < ActiveRecord::Base
validates_presence_of :url, :message => "You must specify a URL."
validates_length_of :url, :maximum => 4096, :allow_blank => true, :message => "That URL is too long."
validates_format_of :url, :with => %r{^(https?|ftp)://.+}i, :allow_blank => true, :message => "The URL must start with http://, https://, or ftp:// ."
# :url is the only attribute that can be set via mass assignment, and only
# via .new
attr_accessible :url
attr_readonly :url
# Retrieve the link with the given code. Raises Sinatra::NotFound if not
# no such record.
def self.find_by_code!(code)
find_by_id(code.to_i(36)) or raise Sinatra::NotFound
end
# Return the code for this link. The code is the id in base 36 (all digits
# plus all lowercase letters).
def code
id ? id.to_s(36) : nil
end
end
# ===== Helpers =====
# Helper methods that will be available in our route handlers and views.
helpers do
# Escape HTML
def h(text)
Rack::Utils.escape_html(text)
end
# Escape URIs
def u(text)
URI.escape(text)
end
# The root URL for this site.
def root_url
server_name = headers['SERVER_NAME'] || 'localhost:4567'
'http://' + server_name
end
# Return the proper pluralization for this number/word combination.
def pluralize(number, word)
"#{number} #{word}" + (number == 1 ? '' : 's')
end
# Truncate the given text at the given length, adding ... to the end.
def truncate(text, length)
if text.length > length
text[0...(length-3)] + '...'
else
text
end
end
# Creates the browser link that people can use to post the current URL in
# their browser to this application.
def bookmarklet(text)
# We need to POST the current URL to / from javascript. The only way
# that I know to do this is to use javascript to create a form on the
# current page, and then submit that form to /.
js_code = <<-EOF
var%20f = document.createElement('form');
f.style.display = 'none';
document.body.appendChild(f);
f.method = 'POST';
f.action = '#{root_url}/';
var%20m = document.createElement('input');
m.setAttribute('type', 'hidden');
m.setAttribute('name', 'link[url]');
m.setAttribute('value', location.href);
f.appendChild(m);
f.submit();
EOF
# Remove all the whitespace from the javascript, so that it's a
# bookmarkable URL.
js_code.gsub!(/\s+/, '')
# Return the link.
%(<a href="javascript:#{js_code}">#{text}</a>)
end
end
# ===== Views =====
use_in_file_templates!
__END__
@@ new
#new
- unless @link.errors.empty?
.error
- for error in @link.errors.on(:url)
%p= error
%form{:action => '/', :method => 'post'}
%label
%input{:type => 'text', :size => '50', :name => 'link[url]', :value => @link.url}/
%input{:type => 'submit', :value => 'Make Tiny'}/
@@ show
#show
%dl
%dt Tiny URL (copy this):
%dd
%a{:href => '/' + @link.code}= h(root_url + '/' + @link.code)
%dt Points to:
%dd
%a{:href => u(@link.url)}= h(truncate(@link.url, 60))
%dt First created:
%dd= @link.created_at.strftime('%A, %B %d, %Y at %I:%M:%S %p')
%dt Used:
%dd= pluralize(@link.seen, 'time')
@@ layout
!!! XML
!!! Strict
%html{:xmlns => "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml", "xml:lang" => "en"}
%head
%meta{"http-equiv" => "Content-type", "content" => "text/html; charset=utf-8"}/
%link{:rel => 'stylesheet', :href => '/stylesheet.css', :type => 'text/css', :media => "screen, projection"}/
%title Tiny URL
%body
%h1#title
%a{:href=>'/'} Tiny URL
%p#tagline Shorten long, unruly URLs for pasting into tweets, chats, and emails.
= yield
#footer
%p#bookmarklet
Drag this link to your browser's bookmark bar to create a tiny URL
anywhere:
= bookmarklet("Link!")
%p#copyright
Copyright &copy;
= Time.now.year
%a{:href=>"http://westarete.com/"} West Arete Computing, Inc.
@@ stylesheet
.error
:color red
#footer
:margin-top 5em
:font-size small
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